Hardware and Software Requirements - VMware ESXi

In this section:

This section describes

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hardware and software requirements and recommendations for

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installations using VMware ESXi.

The recommended hardware and software settings are intended to ensure optimum

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stability and performance. If the recommended settings are not used,

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system may not behave as expected.

License Requirements

You must obtain and apply a valid

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license in order to configure and use the

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. See below:

If you are deploying an SBC SWe Lite trial instance (as described at SBC SWe Lite Trial Offer for On-Premises Deployment) refer to Obtaining and Installing a SWe Lite Trial License for license instructions.
If you are not deploying a trial instance, follow license instructions posted at Obtaining and Installing an SBC SWe Lite Production License.

Hardware Requirements

Configuration	Requirement
Processor	2nd Generation Intel Core or Intel Xeon Processor (Sandy bridge or later)
Host OS	ESXi 5.5 or above
Architecture	64-bit Intel processor
RAM	Each SBC SWe Lite instance requires from 1 GiB to 2.5 GiB of RAM depending on the configuration
Datastore	Hard disk requirements are dependent upon the number of VMs hosted, the size of each VM at full size, and whether snapshots will be enabled.

Platforms using AMD processors are not supported.

Minimum ESXi hosting requirements are posted by VMware.

The SBC SWe Lite does not support execution within a VMware ESXi cluster.

Customized ESXi images for various server platforms are available on VMware and Hardware platform vendor sites.

It ensures that all the required drivers for network and storage controllers are available to run ESXi server.
Most of the customized ESXi images comes with customized management software to manage server running ESXi software.
Customized ESXi images for HP ProLiant and IBM servers are available at:

For more information, please visit the VMware Knowledge Base

Refer to VMware Compatibility Guide (external site) for a list of VMware supported Intel processors.

Refer to ESXi hardware requirements to ensure the VMware supported Intel processors meet ESXi hardware requirements.

Plan enough resources (RAM, CPU, NIC ports, hard disk, etc.) for all the virtual machines (VMs) to run on the server platform, including resources needed by ESXi itself.
Allocate each VM with only as much virtual hardware as that VM requires. Provisioning a VM with more resources than it requires can, in some cases, reduce the performance of that VM as well as other virtual machines sharing the same host.
Disconnect or disable any physical hardware devices that you will not be using (floppy drives, network interfaces, storage controllers, optical drives, USB controllers, etc.) under BIOS settings to free up interrupt/CPU resources.

VM Configuration Recommendations

Setting	Minimum
vCPU	1, 2, 4, and 10 supported
RAM	1 GiB (1024 MiB) to support 1 vCPU 1.5 GiB (1536 MiB) to support 2 vCPUs 2.5 GiB (2560 MiB) to support 4 vCPUs 2.5 GiB (2560 MiB) to support 10 vCPUs
vNIC	5 (Up to 3 may be disabled, if only a single vNIC is required for media. Note: One vNIC is mandatory for management)
Virtual Hard Disk	5 GiB

Minimal networking configuration requires the Management Network Interface and at least one Media Interface to be assigned.
Each SBC SWeLite VM will use approximately 5 GiB of Virtual Hard Drive space. Drive size is predetermined by the imported image.